Bottle-opener.



J. HOUGH.

BOTTLE OPENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. 1908.

926,807. Patented July 6,1909.

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JAMES I-IOUGH, OF GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BOTTLE-OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2, 1908.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Serial No. 418,839.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HOUGH, of the city of Guelph, in the county ofWVellington, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in BottleOpeners, of which the following isthe specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottle openers, and the objectof the present invention is to provide a construction for moving theclosure cap or crown of a bottle and it consists essentially of a devicehaving 'llat spicular projections extending inwardly from the side barsthereof and between the bar supporting the corkscrew and the end bar,such projections being designed to be inserted underneath the edge of acrown cap when the corkscrew is raised, whereby the opposite end of thedevice may be utilized to form the device into a lever, so that theprojections may with facility raise the crown or cap as hereinafter moreparticularly explained.

Figure 1, is a plan view of a device pro vided with my improvement. Fig.2, is a sectional View.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

A is the opener, which comprises the side bars A, end bar A and crossbar A', which carries a corkscrew A.

A are flat s )icular projections located at the back of tie device andextending inwardly from the side bars thereof of which they form part.

The projections are opposite each other and may be of any suitable formand are located between the bar on which the corkscrew is held and theend bar.

The device may be manipulated to remove a crown cap by throwing thecorkscrew upwardly and placing the end bar of the device on top of thecap and the projections A beneath the edge of the cap, when by raisingthe opposite end the crown cap may be removed.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A bottle opener comprising a U-shaped member, a cross bar connectingthe free ends of the parallel portions of the U together, a corkscrewon. said cross bar, and a flat inwardly projecting portion A 011 eachleg portion of the U intermediate the ends thereof.

2. A bottle opener comprising a member having parallel leg portions, anda bar connecting one end of one portion to the corre sponding end of theother portion, a bar con necting said parallel portions intermediatetheir ends, and a flat inwardly projecting portion having a pointed endon each paral lel portion intermediate the two connecting bars, thepointed ends of said flat portions extending toward the end connectingbar.

JAMES HOUGH.

Witnesses B. BOYD, R. GABAIN.

